Politico: Obama vs. Trump: The clash everyone's waited for arrives

[highplainsdem]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/07/obama-trump-speech-2018-811257

Six weeks before the midterms that are existential for both of their visions of the future, Obama unleashed for the first time with an indictment of Trump and Republicans that stopped just short of calling them traitors to the American ideal. Trump, who’s been swiping at Obama on Twitter and other appearances almost every chance he gets and months ago said Democrats who didn’t clap for his state of the union address had committed treason, made a joke about sleeping through it. A few hours later, he congratulated himself for the joke.

“That seems to be the quote of the day, by the way, which I sort of figured," Trump told donors in South Dakota.

Obama delivered some choice quotes of his own during his speech at the University of Illinois. “How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad?” he asked. Later, he called Trump’s Twitter feed “electronic versions of bread and circuses.”

People close to Trump say he has long complained about the fawning coverage and adulation that he believes Obama has received, even after leaving the White House. The dynamic has only bolstered his deep-seated belief that he’ll never be treated fairly or given credit in establishment Washington.

But Trump also sees Obama as a much more formidable political opponent than Hillary Clinton, the one he actually beat, and Trump’s allies have privately worried that the 44th president could get in his successor’s head. Obama, while publicly dismissive of Trump, has been vexed by Trump for years, from the lies about his birth certificate, to the deliberate attempts to undo his signature achievements, to worries about how much he's responsible for the backlash that helped Trump get elected.

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Obama aides were giddy to be back out, watching him give the speech that they have also been waiting for. They were all smiles as he stopped by a café afterward for a campaign stop with gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker, where Obama made a show of ordering tiramisu and telling people there that he couldn’t take selfies with all of them.

Asked what they had to say about Obama’s attacks on Trump — coming at the end of head-exploding week in the middle of the darkest period of his presidency so far — multiple Trump White House aides and people close to him said they didn’t want to get into it, letting the president’s words speak for themselves.

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All three cable networks carried Obama’s speech live and in full, including Fox News, which is often blaring in the president’s cabin on Air Force One, and replayed clips of Obama’s speech. CNN didn’t carry Trump’s remarks in North Dakota live, MSNBC cut away quickly and even Fox News went to commercial before the president wrapped up. None of them carried Trump’s full speech in South Dakota later in the day.

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[Iliyah]

1. t-rump is not in the same class as Mister

President Barrack Hussein Obama.

[highplainsdem]

2. No. Not even close.

And Trump's thinking his "I fell asleep" response to President Obama's speech was witty -- the quote of the day -- is a perfect example of how outclassed he is.

[Cha]

3. President Obama is already living rent free in Fraud's head.. this is

icing!

But Trump also sees Obama as a much more formidable political opponent than Hillary Clinton, the one he actually beat, and Trump’s allies have privately worried that the 44th president could get in his successor’s head. Obama, while publicly dismissive of Trump, has been vexed by Trump for years, from the lies about his birth certificate, to the deliberate attempts to undo his signature achievements, to worries about how much he's responsible for the backlash that helped Trump get elected.

Link to tweet

[sprinkleeninow]

4. I know his primary colour is orange, but has any of him turned green

with obvious ENVY yet?🤢